“ You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. ”
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“ But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis. ”
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“ Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. ”
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“ Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. ”
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“ It's time for bed. And here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to get in bed, and I don't have anyone to sleep with now, so what I do is I sleep with my books. And I know that's kind of weird and solitary and pathetic. But if you think about it, it's very cozy. Over a period of four, five, six, seven, nine, twenty nights of sleeping, you've taken all these books to bed with you, and you fall asleep, and the books are there. *** Some of the books are thick, and some are thin, some of the books are in hardcover and some in paperback. Sometimes they get rolled up with the pillows and the blankets. And I never make the bed. So it's like a stew of books. The bed is the liquid medium. It's a Campbell's Chunky Soup of books. The bed you eat with a fork. ”
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“ It's time for bed. And here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to get in bed, and I don't have anyone to sleep with now, so what I do is I sleep with my books. And I know that's kind of weird and solitary and pathetic. But if you think about it, it's very cozy. Over a period of four, five, six, seven, nine, twenty nights of sleeping, you've taken all these books to bed with you, and you fall asleep, and the books are there. *** Some of the books are thick, and some are thin, some of the books are in hardcover and some in paperback. Sometimes they get rolled up with the pillows and the blankets. And I never make the bed. So it's like a stew of books. The bed is the liquid medium. It's a Campbell's Chunky Soup of books. The bed you eat with a fork. ”
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“ Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? ”
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“ I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. ”
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“ At some point you have to set aside snobbery and what you think is culture and recognize that any random episode of Friends is probably better, more uplifting for the human spirit, than ninety-nine percent of the poetry or drama or fiction or history every published… ”
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“ And it isn't that Joyce has some ludicrous Vagi-fro or massive Koosh-ball explosion of a sex-goatee - in fact here hair isn't thicker really than most. ”
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“ Keyboard work creates a class of unwanted things - one-letter typos, failures of phrasing, bad punctuation. If you don't want to delete these entirely, you can use the Return key to push them to the bottom of the screen. ”
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“ Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain. ”
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“ That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before. ”
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“ Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. ”
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“ Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain. ”
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“ After all, I had never typed the word butthole before in my life. It isn't a word that comes up much in business correspondence. ”
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“ After all, I had never typed the word butthole before in my life. It isn't a word that comes up much in business correspondence. ”
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“ For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. ”
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“ Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? ”
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“ For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. ”
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“ I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. ”
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“ Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain. ”
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“ And it isn't that Joyce has some ludicrous Vagi-fro or massive Koosh-ball explosion of a sex-goatee - in fact here hair isn't thicker really than most. ”
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“ For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. ”
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“ I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. ”
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“ Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. ”
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“ Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain. ”
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“ Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain. ”
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